practical

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Through it all, Nolan remains the consummate Hollywood theorist and practician, someone who realizes his grandiose conceptual ambitions with a stubbornly hands-on, ground-level command of cinematic craft.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

He is, to paraphrase one of the script’s heavier-handed thematic contrasts, a theorist rather than a practician, hopeless in a lab but commanding in the classrooms where much of the movie’s paper-waving, blackboard-scrawling action unfolds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

I have tried to avoid the two extremes which Guizot says are always to be shunned, viz.: that of the "visionary theorist" and that of the "libertine practician."

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph

On the other side of the Channel, Pitt, the ablest practician, and Burke, the ablest theorist, of political liberty, express the same judgment.

From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Durand, John

Dumoulin, not the lawyer, the doctor, who was as good a practician as the other, said as he was dying, that he left two great doctors behind him, diet and river water.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire